(2012/06/27) The turning tide (Immigration)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 June 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #618
The turning tide
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Big Turnaround in Mexican Immigration - Majority Report - Air Date: 4-25-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Recycled air - The Postal Service
Ch. 4: Act 2: Anti Immigrant Bias found in Science - Counterspin - Air Date: 11-17-11
Ch. 5: Song 2: Catch my disease - Ben Lee
Ch. 6: Act 3: Student Loan Fair Deal - Rebuild the Dream - BotL Activism Update
Ch. 7: Song 3: Dreams (Tee's Radio Mix) - The Corrs
Ch. 8: Act 4: Obama To Stop Deporting Young Illegal Immigrants - Young Turks - Air Date: 6-15-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Look at you - My Morning Jacket
Ch. 10: Act 5: Obama Does the Right Thing on Immigration - The Progressive - Air Date: 6-18-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Break up the family - Morrissey
Ch. 12: Act 6: Mitt Romney Talks and Talks But Still Won't Answer the Immigration Question - Majority Report - Air Date: 6-19-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Gibberish - Relient K
Ch. 14: Act 7: Do Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh Know What "Prosecutorial Discretion" Is? - Media Matters - Air Date: 6-19-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Welcome to the black parade - Vitamin String Quartet
Ch. 16: Act 8: Report: Caucasians Will Soon Be A Minority In Their Own Goddamn Country - The Onion
Ch. 17: Song 8: Minority - Green Day
Ch. 18: Act 9: Republican Rep: Undocumented Teen Immigrants Not Innocent - Majority Report - Air Date: 6-19-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Graveyard - The Devil Makes Three
Ch. 20: Act 10: Supreme Court Shoots Down Much of SB1070 Immigration Law - David Pakman - Air Date: 6-25-12
Ch. 21: Song 9: Roll with it - Oasis
Ch. 22: Act 10: Mitt Romney Is Keeping Some Questionable Company on Immigration - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 6-21-12
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.7 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestofluff.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Gupsidae from the Majority |
| 0:12.6 | Report, Counter-Spin, a Best of Left activism update, The Young Turks, The Progressive, |
| 0:17.7 | Media Matters, The Onion Radio News, The David Pakman Show, and The Rachel Maddo Show. |
| 0:21.7 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode acknowledges the existence of |
| 0:25.0 | undocumented immigrants and don't look now but they're standing right behind you. |
| 0:30.0 | Net immigration from Mexico has plummeted to zero. |
| 0:37.6 | In other words, the amount of Mexicans immigrating to America, coming to America, is less than |
| 0:52.5 | the amount that are leaving. |
| 0:58.8 | For four decades that brought 12 million Mexican immigrants, more than half of them undocumented |
| 1:06.3 | to the US. |
| 1:07.3 | The curtain has come down on the biggest immigration wave in modern times. |
| 1:13.0 | So says Bloomberg News. |
| 1:15.0 | And this is, of course, this is also, I should say, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. |
| 1:25.4 | Results from declining immigration from Mexico paired with a rising number of people returning |
| 1:28.6 | south from the US, those trends recently converged in between 2005 and 2010, about as many |
| 1:36.4 | Mexicans left the US as flocked here, it's a flock here, sort of, the language is a little |
| 1:45.7 | bit, between 2000, I mean, because why don't you say they flocked out of here too? |
| 1:53.4 | Between 2005 and 2010, 1.4 million Mexicans migrated north of the border, few than half |
| 1:59.3 | as many in the previous five-year period, meanwhile the number of Mexicans and their children |
| 2:03.0 | are returned to Mexico between 05 and 010 rose to 1.4 million. |
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